Rust Cohle

Rust Cohle (Rustin Spencer Cohle)

Rust Cohle is a character in the first season of the television series named True Detective. which was portrayed by Matthew McConaughey. Cohle and his partner Martin Hart are assigned to investigate a murder in the story of this season. here I collected some of his inspirational dialogues as quotes.

“I’d consider myself a realist, all right? But in philosophical terms, I’m what’s called a pessimist… I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law… We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, that accretion of sensory experience and feelings, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody’s nobody… I think the honorable thing for our species to do is to deny our programming. Stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction; one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.”

“To realize that all your life—you know, all your love, all your hate, all your memory, all your pain—it was all the same thing. It was all the same dream. A dream that you had inside a locked room. A dream about being a person. And like a lot of dreams there’s a monster at the end of it.”

“There is no such thing as forgiveness. People just have short memories.”

“I know who I am. And after all these years, there’s a victory in that.”

“I think about my daughter now, and what she was spared. Sometimes I feel grateful. The doctor said she didn’t feel a thing; went straight into a coma. Then, somewhere in that blackness, she slipped off into another deeper kind. Isn’t that a beautiful way to go out, painlessly as a happy child? Trouble with dying later is you’ve already grown up. The damage is done, it’s too late.”